Anne Tamar-Mattis

Anne Tamar-Mattis is an American attorney, human rights advocate, and founder of interACT (formerly Advocates for Informed Choice). She currently serves as interACT's Legal Director.

Career
Tamar-Mattis spent six years as the Director of the National Youth Talkline at Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center, a national peer-support line for LGBTQ youth. She became the first Program Director for the San Francisco LGBT Community Center in 2001. In 2003, she took a hiatus to attend law school and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2006.

Tamar-Mattis founded interACT with the support of fellowships from Equal Justice Works (2006) and Echoing Green (2008). She has been an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law since 2008 where she teaches Sexual Orientation & the Law.

Selected bibliography
Tamar-Mattis' selected publications include:



Awards and recognition
In 2010, Anne Tamar-Mattis was recognized as an "unsung hero" by KQED Inc.. 2011 saw her elected to the American Law Institute, and in 2012 Anne was awarded the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of Social Justice for Women.

Honours
In 2022, interACT awarded the Anne Tamar-Mattis Advocacy Award to American physician Arlene Baratz for being "an outstanding medical ally in the U.S. intersex movement and a parent of two intersex children".

Personal life
Tamar-Mattis lives with her partner, intersex activist and physician, Suegee Tamar-Mattis. In 2012, they both appeared in the documentary film, Intersexion. They are parents of two children.